Across 37 posts, the episode tracks markets, policy, and culture. The Pentagon’s $1 billion plan to stockpile critical minerals highlights supply chain risks and lifts rare earth names. Confusion over China export controls and Trump’s tariff threats whipsawed risk assets, with debate over the true size of crypto liquidations and Ethereum reclaiming $4,000. On-chain investigations around a whale trade draw calls for independent verification, while rumors about Trump family crypto gains meet skepticism.
Space and AI developments feature. SpaceX counts down to Starship Flight 11, a final Block 2 test with favorable weather. The FT reports xAI hiring former Nvidia specialists for “world models” aimed at richer physical simulations and robotics.
City life and public data come under the lens: San Francisco’s rent surge mirrors an AI hiring boom, and arguments over murder rates point to FBI reporting gaps.\n\nHealth and mindset threads range from evidence for COVID vaccine safety across billions of doses to tensions between lifestyle medicine and prescriptions, plus research on focus and purpose. Human stories stand out too, from grief in Gaza to a Kenyan patient completing an 11th chemotherapy cycle.
Nostalgia and memes round out the feed, from classic Pizza Hut and Kanye-era quotes to sales engineer humor, film lingo jokes, and market memes reacting to tariffs.
